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Axel Heyst lives on a secluded island near the Dutch East Indies port of Surabaya. The year is 1913. While on personal business to the port, he visits the hotel owned by racist German Schomberg. An all-woman orchestra plays in the hotel each night, and orchestra owner, San Giacomo agrees to "sell" one of the girls, Alma, to Schomberg. She asks Heyst to save her from the villains and they escape to his island and live there with native servant Wang. Schomberg points sinister Mr. Jones and his two fellow bandits to that island, saying that the fortune lies ahead of them there. Written by
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Harold Pinter had worked on a screenplay when Richard Lester was slated to direct. See more »

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Capt. Davidson:
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There was an island called Samburu, and a man called Axelhouse. Nobody had actually seen him for over 2 years, although, we all knew he was there. Alone in the Java Sea with the ruins of his Tropical Belt coal company. Heyst the business man, Heyst the dreamer, had turned into Heyst the hermit
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Victory is storytelling at its finest and a seriously good screen adaptation of a great Joseph Conrad story, one of the best storytellers of modern times. Excellent performances by Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill, Irene Jacob, and Rufus Sewell but here the success of this film is the story itself and a director who understands and respects the material. No one could build a tale around a personality flaw better than Conrad and the characters he created are wonderfully mysterious and perplexing and a delight to meet in print or on screen.

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